The Actor on Set is Responsible for Infusing Energy and Life into the Script Created by the Writer

The function of a writer throughout any literary genre, including novels, plays, poetry, music, films, short stories, or other theatrical compositions, is entirely distinct from the roles of the cast. A screenplay can also create exceptional stagecraft, but the performers are tasked with infusing vitality and life to the generated script. They are crucial to communicating the intended message to society. Actors in theatre, for example, play a unique role from writers whose space is in the scriptorium.

Some writers can participate in the production of their own penned works as well as the cast, however in the two different case scenarios, the actors on stage are highlighted since their involvement influences the popularity of the writer in the shadows. I consider actors' roles as subsuming those of writers, and many people have misinterpreted some of the principal characters in various staged literary works as if actors own the texts they feature by acting. That, to me, refers to the firm belief that everyone's purpose will always be carried out by another individual for the well-deserved attention of the targeted audience.

Robert Powell, the better figure who represented Jesus of Nazareth, has portraits and statues scattered around Christendom towns and convergence sites. Powell pictures from all forms of art creation can be found in homes, workplaces, farm yards and dwellings, transit hubs and inside transport carriers in the air, on land, and at sea, and, of course, all religious sites in the Christendom community. Powell was not Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but rather an actor who performed the role exactly as written. Finally, many people mistook him for Christ in the recounted reality. It's only that Powell was able to act out the role nicely to bring the message to the world's notice.

Here we are on the African continent, with our own great actor, Lucian Gabriel Wiina Msamati. He works as a writer, director, and producer, and is well-known for his work in theatre, film, television, and radio. Msamati was born in the United Kingdom and reared in Zimbabwe by his Tanzanian parents. He formed Zimbabwe's Over the Edge Theatre Company.

In his space as an actor in TV and film, he has appeared in Ultimate Force, Spooks, Ashes to Ashes, Doctor Who, Death in Paradise, Luther, The Hollow Crown (Richard II), The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The International, Game of Thrones, Gangs of London, Black Earth Rising, His Dark Materials and Taboo. On stage, he has appeared in a large number of productions at venues including the National Theatre, West End, RSC, Almeida, Kiln, and Royal Court.

As though it was not enough, in 2010 he was appointed Artistic Director of the acclaimed British-African theatre company Tiata Fahodzi. He appeared in the 2020 adaptation of Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, performing the Playing Sandwiches monologue. In 2015, Msamati became the first black actor ever to play Iago in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Othello and his theatrical work is extensive, with a stand-out performance in the leading role of Antonio Salieri in Amadeus at the National Theatre.

In all these things what stands out for me is Lucian Msamati recitation of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart 60th anniversary at BBC studio and that was in 2018. in fact, Lucian Msamati recited an excerpt from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart for the BBC to celebrate the novel's 60th anniversary. This reading was part of a larger event at the Southbank Centre in London and was also featured in clips by BBC Newsnight and BBC Arts Online. Msamati's recitation included the well-known line, "He has put a knife on the things that held us together, and we have fallen apart," 

Indeed, it is self-revealing that when he stormed into the studio and began reciting that particular passage of the novel, the writer appeared to be forgotten momentarily with all heads fixed in gaze. That recital, which was not even dramatised, rocked our bones, with the flesh gleaming with icy shivers in a spontaneous descent, unaffected by ambient variables or inducers, as he finished bitterly on a note of despair. The doomed spill was on us, and after entertaining the whites, heads were down.

At that point, Lucian Msamati breathed new life into the novel's message to Africans. Achebe wrote the script, and Msamati performed admirably on stage. We are all scriptwriters in this life, and one day someone will pick it up from the scriptorium, take it straight to the theatre, and stage it for the world's gaze. Every script, excellent or horrible, will be acted upon!

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